mr_fingle

yeah,

my hard-earned money isn't going anywhere near NCSoft or any of their subsiduary companies

Okay folks, with my extended gap from CoX, whatever happened to Evolution Radio? Is it still going or did it die out when the numbers dropped?

I haven't seen anything about it and I can't find anything on the forums so I assume it's gone (albeit not forgotten).

Yeah I've been back about a month after a VERY lengthy absence and still loving it.

It's good to let Spanky stretch his legs again and, this is definately the only MMO that I have a soft spot for. It's the only one I really feel 'at home' in - if that makes sense.

It's great to see some old names I recall coming back to the game as well and some old SGs being reincarnated.

Ah Thy, I hope you don't go, not now I've finally dusted Spanky off and got him out of retirement.

I suppose it's different if you feel you NEED to have everything on every toon, but thankfully I've managed to avoid that. I want to gear up Spanky and then, if I'm still in the mood, one of my other 50s.

Anyway, I hope you decide to reconsider mate.

lol, nice thread. I agrre with the sentiment, I take it as a personal failure if any member of Spanky's team dies, but then again, you don't always get to hand-pick the muppets you team with (and I've made enough silly mistakes in my 2-year 'career' to be that muppet sometimes).

nice one. I once solo tanked GW in one of the 'fight everything' the GMs send at you event in Pocket D months ago with my Stone/SS, but it took Statesman (IIRC) to take her down though

Ah, we have a forum line

Well I respeced out the pistols on Commander Spanky on the guidance given here and it's like a whole new game tbh. Rather than using the traps to suppliment the damage output of my thugs and my pistols, it is now the other way around (although the pistols were particularly cool, so i do miss them aesthetically).

This is probably now the most intense toon I have had in the 2 years I've been playing and it needs constant adjustment of position and resetting of traps for maximum effect on the combat - running in and dropping another Posion Traps in the middle of a huge fight has saved the team more than I can count (granted it's also face-planted me a few times ).

This is the first CoV toon I have kept and intend to take to 50, it's that much fun

We did this with the Houndfs of Love SG a while back. The team tore through mobs of purples faster than we could target them. Unfortunately as soon as one of the team doesn't turn up, it starts to unravel and our team 'died' after one glorious, and massively enjoyable, session.

The other possible 'confusion' is possibly trying to focus on being a damage dealer, that's not the tanker's primary role. Their role is to soak up dmage, deal some themselves, but is primarily to draw the aggro off the blasters/scrappers so they can do their job without getting squished. Spanky Mc Love Clown (my 21 Inv/Axe) is excellent fun to play, but I have focused on the Inv element rather than the Axe. I am no use to the team if I fall over in the second round of combat, even if i do horrendous damage before i fall over so it is my invulnerability powers that are fully slotted. At 21s level, I still only have Gash and Chop and I am heading for Stamina and more Inv powers before I pick more axe powers (although I am dropping Superjump ASAP).

Tanks - gotta love 'em